Theocracy And Reformation

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Theocracy And Reformation: An In Depth Analysis
Of Government and Social propriety .

The aspect of government and social propriety play a significant role in terms of the ancient civilizations. Through the precedence of Greece and Egypt one can find how social order is implemented and uniformity established. Both Civilizations believed they pleased their god’s by abiding by the standard set by society and livng conditions. The makings of Theocracy and the forth comings of Reform soon come abroad as a result of the interpretation given by each civilization. In Egypt a citizen’s job description was their classification socially, and family history determined governmental placement. In contrast in Greece, a given job title might not necessarily affect placement in office, socially there was a caste system but the defining of one socially didn’t reprimand them in terms of political participation. Egypt believed their rulers were “directly” descendants from the god’s, Greece believed its rulers should be “directly” chosen by the people. Due to the fact that Greece was more Democratic in terms of there social and political beliefs it made them the reformists in terms of standard for a civilization.
Democratic deriving from the word “democracy” or in greek “demos” “kratos” meaning a government in which the people hold power (Fiero 79).Tthe Golden Age of Greece sets a prime example of how this democratic society broke the barriers of other ancient civilizations. The Greeks believed that there god’s were regular people such as them almost equal to them shown in the sculpture made of Zeus, in the figure sculpted he is shown to have the same body parts and physical features of an mortal or common human (Fiero 114) . Many soon believed in this concept that the god’s were just like them just immortal, soon many believed to please them is to please themselves leading to a dramtic change in the common man’s ...